Elderly nursing home residents are being over-prescribed dangerous antipsychotic drugs with potentially irreversible side effects and death.

Geriatric specialist Eddy Strivens says more than 80 per cent of patients with dementia are wrongly prescribed these drugs in the aged care sector.

By breaching these clinical guidelines, doctors and nurses are inadvertently putting elderly patients at risks of strokes, balance issues and pneumonia.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to grant citizenship to the Pakistan-born children of Afghan and Bangladeshi refugees.

More than 1.39 million registered Afghan refugees and 200,000 Bangladeshis make their home in Pakistan, with many of them having lived in the nation for over thirty years.

Pakistani law allows citizenship for all those born in the country but previous administrations did not apply the legislation to refugee families.

The Communist Party of China is proposing steps to introduce a nation wide social credit system in the next two years.

An official party outline indicated this new system will be implemented by 2020, which will see the introduction of personal scorecards for China’s 1.4 billion citizens.

Trial systems are already in place in a dozen cities across China, tallying points dependent on a citizen’s behavioural traits and opinions.

Widely prescribed antidepressants could contribute to the creation of superbugs, according to a new Queensland study.

UQ researchers have found antidepressants such as Prozac and Lovan, Fluoxetine are linked to antibiotic resistance.

Fluoxetine is often prescribed to patients suffering from depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks, anxiety and some eating disorders.

The Queensland Government has confirmed an isolated incident where a “metal object” was found in a banana in Mackay.

According to a spokesman for the Premier, the 62-year-old woman responsible for the apparent copycat act has mental health issues.

The Queensland Police Service say this incident does not have links to the strawberry needle sabotage last week.

Low-achieving school leavers, some with marks close to zero, are being offered places in teaching degrees, according to a confidential report obtained by the ABC.

Previously unreported figures from 2015 showed that NSW and ACT students who scored in the bottom half of the cohort made up half of all those offered places in teaching degrees.

The report was released to the ABC after the University of Sydney demanded it to be destroyed.

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has revealed roughly 900,000 people have opted out of My Health Record as of the 12th of September.

ADHA head Tim Kelsey says the estimate is not comprehensive and reflected only opt outs via the website and call centres, as paper forms have not yet been reconciled.

A variety of health and privacy advocate groups have criticised My Health Record, due to concerns about patient privacy, the system’s security, and access by third parties such as law enforcement.  

Thousands of people have protested ethnic violence in Ethiopia's Capital which saw 23 people killed, and 200 arrested.

The violence against ethnic minorities broke out as leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formerly-banned rebel group, returned home.

On Monday, protesters denounced the killings and demanded justice by shutting businesses, closing roads and jogging through the streets with flags.

At least 100 people have died after widespread flooding and torrential rains in Nigeria.

Four states have declared a state of emergency, with the federal government taking over the search, rescue and rehabilitation of victims.

Flooding is inevitable during Nigeria’s rainy season, but poor infrastructure and lack of planning exacerbates the damages.